With a proud history dating back 140 years, the Bosch Group now employs over 413,000 people across 60 countries incorporating 150 nationalities. As a leading IoT company, Bosch offers innovative solutions for smart homes, smart cities, connected mobility, and connected manufacturing. The Bosch Group’s strategic objective is to facilitate connected living and innovations for a connected life. Bosch improves quality of life worldwide with products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm. In short, Bosch creates technology that is "Invented for life." To this day, Bosch remains privately owned, with 94% held by a charitable trust. Bosch is a rather special company. With its more than 470 locations worldwide, the Bosch Group has been carbon neutral overall (scopes 1 & 2 of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard) since 2020. This is achieved with four levers: improving energy efficiency, generating energy from renewable sources, purchasing green electricity, and offsetting residual CO₂ emissions with carbon credits. Visit sustainability.bosch.com for further information on the Bosch Group’s sustainability strategy.

Bosch Australia’s Vehicle Motion Control team is responsible for the development of hardware and software systems that improve vehicle safety and agility for our mostly automotive customers. Our customer base is global having engineered projects and solutions for Europe, North America, China, Japan, Malaysia and Korea.

Bosch is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and encourage applicants of all backgrounds.

Job Description

Put your automotive expertise to work with Bosch





Are you an experienced Automotive Technician or Engineering Technician who knows vehicles inside out and takes pride in getting the job done properly?

Bosch is seeking a highly capable, hands-on Engineering Technician to join our team at the Automotive Australia Research Centre (AARC) in Anglesea, Victoria.

This is an opportunity for an experienced automotive professional to work alongside engineers on advanced vehicle development programs, supporting development testing, prototype vehicles, technical investigations and the day-to-day operation of a specialist automotive engineering facility.

You will be someone who is technically strong, practical, efficient and confident working independently — a person who sees a problem, understands it and gets on with solving it.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Providing vehicle technical support for development and application activities.
- Preparing, maintaining and servicing development vehicles, test equipment and instrumentation.
- Supporting engineers with vehicle development, testing & validation activities.
- Preparing and de-instrument vehicles for testing and application programs.
- Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues across vehicle systems and components.
- Removing, replacing and modifying electrical modules, braking systems and other vehicle components.




- Conducting development testing in consultation with Application Engineers.
- Installing, modifying and maintaining vehicle instrumentation and test equipment.
- Fabricating test fixtures and components using workshop machinery and fabrication techniques.
- Ensuring application test equipment is maintained, fit-for-purpose and available when required.
- Managing storage of prototype parts, equipment and consumables, including just-in-time inventory.
- Supporting customer and maintenance staff visits to AARC.
- Ensuring workshop operations are safe, professional, efficient and compliant.
- Completing day-to-day workshop administration, equipment and maintenance activities.

Qualifications

We are looking for an experienced Automotive Technician with strong mechanical and electrical expertise and a practical, hands-on approach to vehicle development and testing.

You will bring:

- A recognised Automotive Technician qualification with significant industry experience.
- Strong knowledge of vehicle mechanical and electrical systems, ideally within a development, prototype or testing workplace.
- Proven workshop, maintenance and fault-finding capability.
- Fabrication and welding experience; skills withlathes, mills and other workshop machinerywould be highly regarded.
- A practical, methodical approach to diagnosing and resolving technical issues.
- The ability to work autonomously, take ownership and use initiative.Strong organisational, time-management and communication skills.
- A commitment to safety, quality and maintaining high workshop standards.

Desirable Qualifications: Fitter & Turner or similar qualification and a current forkl

📌 Engineering Technician – Automotive (Surf Coast Shire)
🏢 Bosch
📍 Surf Coast Shire